A man overwinds his son’s clockwork clown. It’s no longer funny.
A man wipes the sleep out of a dog’s eye
The blue is the colour of a boarding school, a place where boys run like sweat itself.
Hatchback chat.
I have a friend whose mother always made the family eat custard because she heard it prevented radiation build up.
Love wasn’t built in a day.
"I was born on Christmas Day; my mother was very apologetic and the doctor said: Madame Bourgeois, really you are ruining my festivity." The birth of the artist Louise Bourgeois
‘Knowledge is both alive and fragile.
It is embodied in people, and the teams and communities they form, and is transmitted through repeated, almost ritualistic practices. Imagine trying to train a new generation of surgeons in a world where no surgeons remain…….it is reasonable to say that knowledge is like a shark: it must keep moving to stay alive.’ Cesar Hidalgo FT
One of his last requests was that his dancing shoes be placed in his casket, because he planned to "dance with the angels." When told that they might not be dancers, he said that he would teach them.
‘The BBC late night ‘shipping forecast’ is always 370 words long….it is the verse of both longing and leaving.’ AA Gill
We walked out in to the chilly sodium night
